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Ebola Survivor Amber Vinson Donates Blood to Help With Cure
Amber Vinson, the second nurse at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas to contract Ebola from “patient zero” Thomas Duncan, will continue to help find a way to battle the deadly virus by donating her blood in hopes of finding a cure, USA Today reports. Vinson’s blood will be sent to drug-development company XBiotech. “We…
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Police Release Video of NJ Man’s Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting
Video and audio of Jerame Reid’s fatal Dec. 30, 2014, encounter with police in Bridgeton, N.J., was released by the Bridgeton Police Department. It shows the 36-year-old’s last minutes alive before officers shot him, NJ.com reports. In the video, police can be seen pulling over a blue Jaguar being driven by Leroy Tutt, 46. Reid…
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SC Cop Suspended After Video Showing Suspect Being Punched
A Columbia, S.C., cop has been suspended without pay after the leak of a video that appears to show him punching a suspect multiple times, USA Today reports. Officer Tyrone Pugh is facing an internal investigation, as well as a separate investigation by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, regarding an incident that happened while,…
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Dozens of Stanford Students Arrested in MLK Day Protest in Bay Area
Dozens of demonstrators who say they are Stanford University students were arrested Monday evening, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, accused of disrupting traffic on California’s San Mateo-Hayward Bridge during a peaceful protest, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the report, at least 50 people lined up across the bridge—which has no pedestrian access—a little…
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Md. Woman Pleads Guilty in Exorcism Murder of 2 Toddlers
A Maryland woman has pleaded guilty to, but will not be held criminally responsible for, the murders of her best friend’s two toddlers last January during what she believed was an exorcism, WUSA reports. Monifa Sanford suffered from mental illness, leading her to hallucinate and hear voices, one of which she believed to be Satan.…
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Missing NJ Man Found Dead in Trunk of His Car
Two days after Jordan Johnson’s girlfriend reported that he had been kidnapped, the body of the 24-year-old New Jersey man was discovered in the trunk of his car in New York City on Thursday, cops confirmed, according to the New York Post. Johnson’s parked 2013 BMW was found around 2 p.m. in the Bronx. Authorities…
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Report: George Zimmerman a ‘Psycho,’ Ex-Girlfriend Says
In case you couldn’t get a feel for it, George Zimmerman is a “psycho,” or so his now-ex-girlfriend said, according to police documents, New York magazine reports. Over the weekend Zimmerman, who was infamously acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly…
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Diversity Targeted in ‘White Genocide’ Billboard Near Birmingham, Ala.
Commuters driving along Interstate Highway 59, located near Birmingham, Ala., are once again being greeted by a billboard bearing a racially charged message steeped in segregationist belief, AL.com reports. It is the second time in less than a year that such a billboard has popped up in the area. This latest one reads, “Diversity means chasing…
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Obama to Propose 2-Year Tuition-Free Community College Program
Forget about making education simply “affordable.” President Barack Obama is planning to announce a program to make the first two years of community college free “for those willing to work for it,” as he revealed in a recent video message made while he was aboard Air Force One, which was posted to the White House’s Facebook…
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LAPD Cops Shot Ezell Ford in the Back, Autopsy Finds
An autopsy released by the Los Angeles Police Department details that Ezell Ford, the mentally ill 25-year-old who was killed by police Aug. 11, was shot three times, including once in the back, KABC reports. Two days after Michael Brown’s shooting death, Los Angeles police officers were attempting to restrain Ford, who family members said…
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